Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saliva, like blood, breath, etc., has been regarded, by many peoples of the world, as having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion of this sort. LESLIE A. WHITE Dept. of Anthropology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...
Although Dr. Matsner thus withheld some information of interest to women, he was frank about the uses of his toads. When away from their native habitat they will not lay eggs naturally. However, if they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable...
...contraceptive is a synthetic, hormone-like substance to be administered hypodermically. It inhibits the production of ova, without which no woman can conceive. In this respect it differs from spermatoxin, an extract of spermatozoa, which renders a woman transiently infertile when injected into her arm like a vaccine. As long as her blood is stimulated by spermatoxin no spermatozoa can affect her and she cannot have babies. Not all women will endure injections of spermatoxin, because it may render them allergic and put them in a class with victims of hives...
...conservative Friend, at a Philadelphia meeting at which Dr. Jones was to speak, arose and prayed: "Oh Lord, prepare our minds and hearts for the untruths we are about to hear." Once in England he used the expression "I was thinking" at a meeting, whereupon a woman said: "Rufus, thy testimony was interesting, but thee does wrong to think in meeting." Once, also, he was mountain-climbing with a member of the Rowntree family and two guides, and complied with the guides' request to pass a liquor bottle from one to the other. At this Climber Rowntree stuck...
Optimistic, like nearly all of H. G. Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...